It is a time of fear in the face of freedom, a time of an emptying country and swelling cities, a time for the widening of previous roads and the opening of new paths, yet a time when these paths are mined by knowing algorithms of the all-seeing eye. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection. These are the times when maps fade, old landmarks crumble and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread. Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times.

Docdawg has written a detailed blog post explaining that of the 15 congressional candidates agreeing to the slate of campaign finance reforms listed at reform.to between July 29 and August 5, every single last one is a member of the Democratic Party. The time frame of July 29 to August 5 is important, because as DocDawg notes this was the last chance offered by the Mayday Super PAC: if congressional candidates didn’t announce their support for at least one of the campaign finance reform proposals at reform.to, the Mayday Super PAC just might fund their opponent in the race.

Looking at the entire list of congressional candidates at reform.to, including those who’d announced support for reforms before July 29, we can see a list of 210 unique congressional candidates on board with the reform.to agenda (some are listed more than once because they support just one of the reform.to proposals). What’s the partisan breakdown of this larger group?

202 members of the Democratic Party. 4 Independents. 3 Republicans. 1 member of the Libertarian Party. Support for campaign finance reforms listed at reform.to runs at 96.2% Democratic and just 1.4% Republican.

Some pundits are fond of saying that support for campaign finance reform “crosses partisan lines” in America. That may be true among voters, but one would have to stretch wildly to claim it’s true among politicians.

This is one of the million reasons I never ran for office. Should I vote to pry the cold dead fingers of special interests off of our political process or vote to oppose coerced subsidies of the political class. My butt would hurt sitting on this fence.

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